Cloud Microphones of Tucson, Arizona is a manufacturer of high quality ribbon microphones and accessories.
The company’s line of high-end ribbon mics owes its lineage to the design of the classic RCA ribbons that are still seen in top studios around the world to this day.
But ribbon mics aren’t Read more...
I recently took a stretch of road less traveled to see an old friend, Tony Drootin, as he oversaw construction on David Amlen’s latest studio, the newly reborn Sound on Sound now in Montclair, NJ.
Both Amlen and Drootin were key players in the NYC studio scene during its last Read more...
Peter Gabriel is cashing out – kind of.
12 years after becoming the majority shareholder of console manufacturer Solid State Logic a.k.a. SSL, Gabriel is handing over the keys to an audio conglomerate. The new owner is Audiotonix, a larger-scale UK-based entity that was borne out of DiGiCo and designs, Read more...
As I begin to write my first entry about the resurrection of the world’s first digital instrument-controlled synthesizer from the ‘70s, I have to take a beat to think about how far I’ve come in three years.
I’m a 29-year-old female from Loveland, Ohio with no background in synthesizers, engineering, Read more...
Writing a fair and complete review of an entire DAW is a daunting task, to say the least.
A DAW is much more than just a recording device. It’s more than an editor and more than a processor. It’s an entire studio environment with complex workflow possibilities and constraints alike. Read more...
Scary good. If that’s the wavelength that your movie is on, then composer Michael Wandmacher is your man.
Just take a listen to his work on cinematic hits like Underworld: Blood Wars, and you’ll see what we mean. In the soundtrack preview, you can count on the Los Angeles-based Wandmacher Read more...
In the world of professional audio, Pro Tools has long been king.
This has been especially true in the U.S., where it has become the de facto standard of music production, much like 2” 24-track tape was from the 70s to the early 2000s.
Today, even the average hobbyist musician Read more...
For even more on mastering, try the new full-length course from SonicScoop editor Justin Colletti, Mastering Demystified.
Reference tracks are essential in any studio. Following up on our previous guide “Next-Gen Reference Tracks”, we’ll continue asking top audio pros what they put their ears on.
Give a look – and Read more...
Who was Les Paul? He was man who could be classified in many different ways: Inventor, audio engineer, producer, arranger, musician—as a jazz, country and blues guitarist—and designer of audio circuits and guitars.
As disparate as each of these skills may be, he brought one common quality to all of Read more...
Whether you’re a musician, songwriter or producer, you have undoubtedly come across countless tutorials on becoming better at the very “thing“ that you do, whether it’s wailing on guitar, dreaming up multi-part harmonies, or avoiding that 60hz rumble in mixing the latest track for your clients.
But there’s comparatively Read more...
